"You can make a beautiful thing, but there’s no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing. wrecking a thing, questioning a thing to the point where you have pushed it to the edge, and then recuperating it.” –– Amy Sillman
This current work incorporates what I consider to be contradictory styles and applications; gestural, geometric, expressive, abstract, representational, etc, and the structure of the paintings is arrived at through repeated rounds of combination, replacement, dissection and reconfiguration of the work. The paintings are mixed media, using charcoal, collage, acrylic and spray paint primarily.
As a painter, I am interested in discovering visual and contextual balance in the dilemmas created by combining these elements in opposition. For me, this is where the art happens ––unexpected composition and coalescence within that process. Observation/meditations on the animating principles at work in our lives and the world around us.
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Over the years, I have lived and worked and/or shown art in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Kansas City, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Nashville and currently Hudson Valley, NY.
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Exhibitions include:
Is It Is, solo, State Gallery / Nashville
Contradiction to Coalescence, solo, The Arts Company / Nashville
Not Just Drawing: A Line With Intent, juried, ARC Gallery / Chicago
Beholder Artists, group, 111 Minna Gallery / San Francisco
New Beginnings, juried, Satsuma Gallery / Los Angeles
Paint and Content, group, Post Gallery / Kansas City
Five Abstract Artists, Contemporary Art Workshop / Chicago
Red, group, Contemporary Art Workshop / Chicago
Drawing, juried, Moming Dance and Art Center / Chicago
Solo, UP Gallery, University of Pittsburgh / Pittsburgh
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INSTAGRAM: bobbechtol.art
INQUIRIES: bobbechtol@gmail.com